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&039;They&039;re co!&039; shouted one of the survivors from a lookout position on the third floor of the university acco was otherwise quiet and the disembodied voice of the lookout quickly travelled down empty corridors and into the various room where the rest of the survivors sat and waited Donna and Keith Peterson were the first to react They ju anxiously in the asseh the complex

They headed over to a balcony on the side of the building which overlooked the enclosed football pitch that they had earlier agreed to use as a temporary lock-up for their vehicles until they were ready to leave the city Donna pushed her way out through double-fronted glass doors and leant precariously over the edge of the balcony, craning her neck to try and catch sight of the returning survivors while, at the sao and fear she felt hanging a hundred feet above the crowds of corpses She could hear so silence of the world made it impossible for her to be able to tell how far away they were and in which direction they were travelling There were relatively few bodies on the ground below the balcony - perhaps only a hundred or so - and Donna also thought that their numbers appeared to have reduced so that she could see

The noise and distractions caused by the survivors being in another part of the city had tee proportion of the iures away from the university It was obvious, however, that the return of the six men would inevitably also result in the return ofcorpses &039;I can see them,&039; Keith Peterson said He had cli the balcony and was holding onto the door they had just coh for support &039;Are they all there?&039; Donna asked anxiously &039;Can&039;t tell,&039; Peterson replied &039;There are at least three of them I can see a van and two trucks&039; The blood-splattered convoy slowly pulled into view, the white fronts of the van and the trucks having been soaked with the gore and dripping re bodies

Inside the lead van Phil Croft steered towards the welcos with Cooper at his side still trying to peer through theto locate the track which would take them off the norant to the danger of the huge and powerful ravitate around the vehicles Croft took a sudden sharp left He recognised the narrow road He knew that it would take the and allow thelanced up into the rear view st the confusion, watched as first one and then both trucks turned and followed him away from the main road &039;Not far now,&039; he said quietly Cooper didn&039;t respond Instead he turned around on his seat and stared up at the acco for the other survivors, wanting to be sure that they knew they had returned He saw Donna and Peterson first, and then noticed other faces peering out froroup still hadn&039;t been able to make any definite plans or work out the precise details of the afternoon&039;s risky excursion out into the open Their reed upon The ly overlooked

Where was the sense in trying to iron out fine details, they had decided, when no-one knehether or not theirto be achieved? Now that thetransport, the intentional shortfalls in their planning were unnerving and daunting &039;So what do we do now?&039; asked Croft as they drove towards the wiremesh enclosed football pitch They could already see that the gate was closed To get out and open it would be taking a huge risk and to s bodies &039;Just keephi to have to drive through the gate&039; &039;But we&039;ll&039; Croft began to protest &039;Go through, reverse up and we&039;ll use the van to block off the entrance once the others are through&039; &039;So how are we going to get back inside if we&039;re going to block the fucking exit?&039; Cooper shook his head, resigned and irritated by the doctor&039;s obvious nerves &039;We&039;re not going to be able to do anything for so onto the sides of his seat as the van buh stillto bring thousands of these bloody things here&039;

&039;We could make a run for it&039; &039;We could, but I think we should sit tight and wait for a while Doesn&039;t et back inside for a couple of hours Hopefully there will be fewer of them around by then

&039; Cooper braced hi the entrance to the football pitch Steve Ar close behind &039;If he can&039;t do it,&039; the lorry driver grunted, &039;then I&039;ll get through it with this thing&039; &039;You&039;ll take half the bloody fence with you,&039; snapped Bernard Heath sitting next to him As they had neared the university so Heath&039;s nervousness and apprehension had increased considerably He knew the ti their shelter The four ate The force of the i the buckledhalf-open, held in place by one stubborn hinge Croft reversed a fewthe re onto the football pitch Suddenly free and able to move without obstruction, the doctor turned the van around in a large circle He watched with nervous fascination as the bodies began to arrive The diseased shells collided with the rattling wire-mesh barrier around the entire periht,&039; Arh the space where the ate had been An experienced driver, the sides of his vehicle missed the fence by littlethat the first truck had entered the football pitch unscathed gave Paul Castle a false faith in his own abilities He forced the ser side scraped along the gatepost

As soon as the last of the three vehicles was safe within the confines of the metal fence Croft parked the van across the width of the entrance, blocking access to the football pitch for the hundreds of staggering cadavers which dragged thee parked his vehicle in thethree bodies which hadfield in the short tiap, Paul Castle did the saht,&039; Cooper ordered as he ran froer of the two trucks &039;Get in the back of this one&039; All around the football pitch bodies continued to collide noisily and clumsily with the fence Where between ten and twenty had stood ures stood and s and shaking the wire-et at the survivors inside Needing no further encouragement, the five other men followed Cooper into the back of the truck

Taking care not to fully shut the heavy, security locked door, the soldier collapsed down onto a nearby metal bench &039;Did it,&039; he said quietly The military authority and direction previously so clear in his voice had suddenly been dropped and had been replaced with obvious relief The other tired faces around him looked similarly relieved &039;So what do we do now?&039; Jack Baxter asked &039;Looks like we&039;re stuck out here for a while&039; &039;Let&039;s just take it easy,&039; the soldier replied &039;Nothing else to do but sit and wait&039;